My "disappointment" with the Movie Part 2

[karategal1210]

Larry,

I totally agree with all your points here. JK Rowling wove a better ending to this story.  Harry's speech to Tom Riddle was one of my favorite parts of the book. I heard an interview with Director David Yates and they thought that the conversation would not hold up on film, so they came up with their own ending. Personally, I have seen plenty of films where speeches like that work. I guess that is all a matter of opinion. It is all in how you shoot it. Well, we got a good ending to the films. It just could have been so much better if they stuck to Rowling's marvelous ending.

danielle 

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "lkotur" <lkotur at ...> wrote:
>
> To compare the movie to the book - well the movie was the movie and the book was
> the story.
> 
> I thoroughly enjoyed the movie to the point of "Harry is dead" and Vodemort gloats at the Hogwarts entrance.
> 
> The movie was disappointing in the "Harry is alive" scene when Harry rolled out
> of Hagrid's arms. The Harry and Voldemort "flying" scenes were contrived and I
> believe that was done for the 3-D effects- and the Ron - Hermione trying to kill
> the snake did not work for me.
> 
> To me in the book, when Harry's body "disappeared" under the invisibility cloak
> and the panic in the Death Eaters that ensued and Voldemort's curses not working
> due to Harry's "death" in the forest, was more exciting than the dueling in the
> movie. In the book when Harry finally reveals himself in the Great Hall, there
> is a gasp of excitement and you can feel Voldemort sweat. Harry's speech to Tom
> Riddle and Voldemort's refusal to show remorse was a key point of the story.
> The final curse from Voldemort killed himself. In the book that was clear - in
> the movie well not so much (if you knew nothing about the book. Also,
> Voldemort's body disintegrating - another 3D effect - did not work for me.
> 
> One last thing the move really screwed up was the disposition of the Deathly
> Hallows. In the movie Harry breaks the elder wand without repairing his wand
> broken at Godrics Hallow. (The resurrection stone was left in the forest like
> the book) I think the movie should have shown the scene when Harry goes to the
> Headmaster's office and all the portraits applaud and Harry speaks with
> Dumbledore's portrait about the Deathly Hallows and repairs his wand with the
> elder wand.
> 
> One thing the movie got right on was the "19 years later".
> That was good.
> 
> Overall the movie was entertaining and told a story that finished the series,
> but JKR told one heck of a story that is much better!
> 
> Larry
>